Finally, WiMax Is Arriving

Joke may be over: Around the corner? Which corner?

By

Nina Sovich

Updated Feb. 13, 2007 12:01 a.m. ET

The deployment of WiMax, a faster form of wireless broadband, has been two years away for six years, jokes Daryl Schoolar, a senior analyst for networking at market-research firm In-Stat in Scottsdale, Ariz.

"It's like this great idea -- but always around the corner," he says. And finally, he adds, the corner is in sight: "I think it's ready for the big time."